Carte Generale des Decouvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representant la grande probabilite d'un Passage au Nord Ouest par Thomas Jefferys.

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• ARTIST: Didier Robert de Vaugondy

• PUBLISHER: Published in Paris.

• MEDIUM: Copper engraving,

  DATE: 1772.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 11 1/4 x 13 15/16" (286 x 355 mm).

• DESCRIPTION: Map no. 8 from the supplement to the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopaedie, 1770-1779. This map of arctic America and the Bering Strait concentrates on illustrating Admiral de Fonte's claim to the existence of a Northwest Passage, here leading to Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. Alaska is shown as a peninsula rather than the group of islands so often mapped. Other geographic information is adapted from maps of the Russian discoveries in 1741 and an earlier Japanese map.

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• CONDITION: Good condition.

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• CATEGORIES: Maps